, by BOWRING Philip, CHOW Holden
Hong Kong should be alive to the coronavirus threat to globalisation, yet unlike in Singapore, another international city dependent on free trade, the government has shown no leadership, leaving medical workers to strike for better protection and domestic workers open to further abuse
It may (...)
, by HILLIER Ben
The largest quarantine in human history is ongoing: a total lockdown of maybe 60 million people in Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan, the epicentre of the epidemic. One thousand kilometres south, Asia’s World City, as Hong Kong likes to call itself, is in chaos.
People queuing for masks in (...)
, by BEATTIE Elizabeth
Hong Kong’s domestic workers struggle to defend already meagre rights as virus triggers calls for them to stay at home.
Hong Kong. China - Domestic workers in Hong Kong typically only have one day off each week - Sunday.
On this contractually-stipulated rest day, the city’s large parks and (...)
, by CARVALHO Raquel
• Many are growing anxious as they are unable to get masks and hand sanitiser, while some are being fired as their employers leave the city as the crisis grows
• Rights groups are calling for donations, as the Philippine and Indonesian consulates are expected to distribute thousands of masks to (...)
, by CHEUNG Tony
• Hospital Authority says services ‘seriously affected’ as about 2,700 staff skip work in bid to force government into total border shutdown
• City’s first human-to-human transmission of deadly virus confirmed as 15th patient infected through close contact with her son
Hong Kong’s embattled leader (...)
, by CHAN Ho Him, CHEUNG Elizabeth, LEUNG Kanis , TING Victor
• Health chiefs raise worrying possibility that 75-year-old man who became 12th confirmed case on Friday might have been infected in the city
• Hospital bosses to meet angry workers on Sunday in bid to head off industrial action
Thousands of Hong Kong’s public hospital doctors, nurses and other (...)
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